The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 382
sothat the water fell directly upon the hottest part of the tube flue, and it isremarkable that the tube is most extensively fractured at that spot. Allthe appearances presented by the boiler botjibefore and after the explosionand the injury done by the event are accurately detailed, and the paper… … The raachuie is composed of two parallel bars of steel, supporting atraversing carriage, through the centre of which passes a spiral auger at-tached to a screwed bar; this bar (its into a female screw clamp above thecarnage, and on the upper end is a winch with four handles. When theins rument is…
Architecture · Civil engineering · Science
Internet Archive · Boston Library Consortium · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
